• After three road games and nearly a month away from home
Weber State will open a three-game homestand beginning Wednesday against Utah
Valley.

• Weber State comes into the game with a 2-2 overall record and is
coming off a 62-61 win at Dayton last week.

• Utah Valley enters this
week 4-5 on the season.

• Weber State holds a 3-2 all-time lead over the
Wolverines and the Wildcats are 3-0 in the series in Ogden.

MEDIA INFORMATION

Wednesday’s game will be heard live on FM-106.9 “The
Zone” with Carl Arky, the 2011 Utah Sportscaster of the Year, calling the
action. It can also be heard online at 1280thezone.com.

The game can be
seen live online for free at bigskytv.org. Live stats are available at
WeberStateSports.com.

WILDCATS WIN BIG ROAD GAME AT DAYTON

Weber State pulled off a big
non-conference road win 62-61 at Dayton last Wednesday. The Wildcats trailed by
five at halftime and seven points early in the second half but rallied to pull
off the victory over the Flyers, in front of 12,176 fans, the largest crowd
Weber State has faced in three seasons. Weber State shot 44 percent from the
field and held the Flyers to 36 percent shooting. WSU also outrebounded Dayton
36-31.

KYLE TRESNAK LEADS WILDCATS IN WIN

Weber State junior KyleTresnak led
Weber State with season-highs in the win over Dayton. The center from
Scottsdale, Ariz., scored a season-high 16 points and had a season-high seven
rebounds in Wednesday’s victory. He finished 6-10 shooting and added two blocks
in just 22 minutes of play. He scored seven of Weber State’s first 10 points of
the game.

For his performance Tresnak was named the Weber State
Student-Athlete of the Week. On the season Tresnak is averaging 7.0 points and
4.5 rebounds per game after four games. He is also third in the Big Sky in
blocks at 2.0 per game.

SEASON-HIGHS FOR SCOTT BAMFORTH

WSU junior guard Scott Bamforth also
had a season-high in Wednesday’s victory. The Albuquerque, N.M., native
finished with 15 points to go along with five rebounds and three assists. He
was 4-9 from the field, including 3-7 from three-point land and was a perfect
4-4 from the free throw line. Bamforth made a key three-pointer with 1:26 to
play that broke a tie and gave WSU the lead for good. He also knocked down two
key free throws with eight seconds remaining.

On the season Bamforth is
averaging 10.5 points and 3.5 assists per game. He is shooting 93 percent from
the free throw line.

ANOTHER STRONG REBOUNDING GAME FOR BOLOMBOY

WSU freshman Joel Bolomboy
had another strong game in helping the Wildcats beat Dayton Wednesday. The Fort
Worth, Texas native finished the night with seven points on 3-6 shooting and had
a game-high 10 rebounds along with one blocked shot. In four games this season
Bolomboy is averaging 7.8 points and is second in the Big Sky in rebounds at 8.0
per game. He has posted double figures in rebounds in three of the first four
games this season.

RICHARDSON LEADS BIG SKY IN 3-POINT PERCENTAGE

Weber State junior
Jordan Richardson leads the Big Sky Conference in three-point field goal
percentage. The Lewisville, Tex., native is 8-11 from three-point land this
season for 72.7 percent shooting. Richardson was 2-2 from three-point land in
WSU’s win at Dayton. He is also third in the league and first on the WSU team
in field goal percentage, shooting 59.1 percent from the field.

On the
season Richardson is third on the WSU team in scoring at 10.0 points per game
and is tied for the team lead in assists at 3.5 per game. He has played in all
68 games of his career and has started in 18 games.

600 STRAIGHT GAMES WITH A THREE-POINTER

Weber State reached a
milestone in last week’s win at Dayton. The Wildcats have now made at least one
three-pointer in 600 consecutive games. The last time WSU did not make a
three-pointer in a game was exactly 20 years ago on Dec. 4, 1992 at Purdue.

UNLV leads the nation with 846 consecutive games with at least one
three-pointer made. UNLV, Vanderbilt and Princeton are the only three schools in
the country to make a three-pointer in every game since the inception of the
three-pointer in the 1986-87 season.

FOURTH LONGEST HOME WINNING STREAK IN NATION

After three road games
and nearly a month since the last home game the Wildcats are back home for
three-straight starting with Utah Valley on Wednesday night. The Wildcats enter
this week having won 18 straight home games, which is currently the fourth
longest home winning streak in the country. WSU finished a perfect 16-0 at home
last season, the best home record in school history.

The WSU school record
for consecutive home wins is an incredible 46 straight wins which Weber State
had from February 1964 to February 1967 under head coach Dick Motta. The WSU
record for consecutive home wins in the Dee Events Center is 30 from December
1997 to January 2000.

Weber State is 394-100 all-time at the Dee Events
Center. Under Coach Randy Rahe the Wildcats are 76-11 at home and 44-4 in Big
Sky games.

BIG SKY RANKINGS

After four games Weber State leads the Big Sky in
scoring margin (+12.0), three-point field goal percentage defense (.371),
rebounding offense (38.8) and assists (17.8). The Wildcats are second in the
Big Sky and seventh in the nation in three-point field goal percentage at 43.5
percent. WSU is also second in the conference in scoring offense, field goal
percentage, rebounding defense, rebounding margin, and assist to turnover
ratio.

Individually, Davion Berry is sixth in the conference in scoring
at 14.5 points per game. Joel Bolomboy is second in rebounding at 8.0 and Jordan
Richardson leads the league in three-point field goal percentage at 72.7
percent. Kyle Tresnak is third in the league in blocks at 2.0 per game.

Wildcats picked second in Big Sky preseason polls

The University of
Montana was picked to repeat as Big Sky men’s basketball champions according to
a preseason coaches and media polls. Weber State was picked second in both
polls, marking the first time in five seasons that the Wildcats were not picked
to win the conference title in the preseason polls.

Montana, who posted a
15-1 conference record last season and won the conference tournament, garnered
eight first place votes and 98 total points in the coaches polls. They had 24
first-place votes in the media poll and totaled 344 points.

Weber State
was second with 92 points in the coaches poll and had three first-place votes.
The Wildcats also had eight first-place votes in the media poll and totaled 318
points. Northern Colorado came in third in the coaches poll and fourth in the
media poll. Eastern Washington was third in the media poll and finished sixth
in the coaches poll. New conference member North Dakota came in
fourth.

ABOUT UTAH VALLEY

Utah Valley enters this week with a 4-5
overall record and is coming off a 67-63 overtime win over Pepperdine last
Saturday. The Wolverines defeated Big Sky team Eastern Washington 86-83 at
home. They also defeated Arizona Christian 96-70, the team Weber State defeated
110-52 in the season opener.

So far this season the Wolverines are shooting
45.5 percent from the field and 32 percent from three-point land. They are
holding their opponents to 29 percent shooting from three-point range. They are
being outscored by five points per game and outrebounded by 2.3 rebounds per
game.

Ben Aird leads the team at 13.7 points and 7.8 rebounds per game,
while shooting nearly 60 percent from the field. Alfonzo Hubbard is averaging
9.6 points and 4.0 rebounds per game and Nick Thompson is averaging 9.3 points
and 6.4 rebounds a contest.

Utah Valley was 20-13 last season and
finished 9-1 in Great West Conference action and advanced to the
collegeinsider.com Tournament where they lost to Weber State. Utah Valley will
be a member of the Western Athletic Conference next season.

HEAD
COACH DICK HUNSAKER

The Wolverines are coached by former Weber State player
and assistant coach Dick Hunsaker who is in his 11th season at Utah Valley.
Hunsaker enters this week with a 191-115 all-time record with the Wolverines.
In 17 years as a head coach he has a career record of 358-188.

Hunsaker
played basketball and graduated from Weber State in 1977 with a degree in
Psychology. He later served as an assistant coach at Weber State under Neil
McCarthy. In 1985 Hunsaker was named Weber State Alumnus of the Year.

Prior to coming to Utah Valley Hunsaker spent time as head coach at Ball
State and Manchester College and in the CBA. He has also been an assistant
coach at the University of Utah.

SERIES HISTORY

Weber State holds
a 3-2 all-time series lead over Utah Valley. The two teams met twice in the
2004-05 season and the 2005-06 season and then did not play again until last
season when the Wildcats defeated the Wolverines 72-69 in Ogden in the first
round of the collegeinsider.com Postseason Tournament.

Weber State is 3-0
all-time against the Wolverines in Ogden.

LAST MEETING - 03/13/12 - OGDEN - WSU 72-69

The Wildcats defeated the
Wolverines 72-69 last March 13 at the Dee Events Center in the first round of
the collegeinsider.com Postseason Tournament. Both teams shot 48 percent from
the field in the game but the Wolverines committed 17 turnovers, compared to
just nine for Weber State. Damian Lillard led the way for Weber State,
finishing with 21 points and five assists. Scott Bamforth added 16 points and
five assists. Isiah Williams had 26 for Utah Valley.

QUOTING WSU HEAD COACH RANDY RAHE

“I was extremely proud of how hard we
fought in a very difficult environment at Dayton. We fought back after being
down and showed a lot of toughness down the stretch.

“Utah Valley is a
very tough, physical, hard-nosed team that is extremely well coached. They will
play very hard and we will have to be ready to compete.”

LOOKING AHEAD

After Wednesday’s game Weber State will be back home
to take on the Anteaters of UC Irvine this Saturday, Dec. 8 at 7:00 p.m. WSU
will then close out the homestand against BYU on Dec. 15.